Example sentences of "[pers pn] come [adv prt] from the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 When I came round from the chloroform I was in bed .
2 I missed several classes because they put me up in , for instance I , when I came up from the infants to the big school I missed the first standard and they put me into standard two and I went from two , three , four , five , six , seven and seven and I was only eleven , you see , so I did pretty well and then the Headmaster came to my parents and said , why do n't you let her go in for a scholarship to Stowmarket Secondary and so I went in for that and er there was one other girl went as well , there were two of us and erm , and of course we only heard during the summer break and er we passed .
3 Then , in the afternoon , I came in from the garden and found her in an armchair , engrossed in a thick , glossy-looking book .
4 Yes , if we skip all the intermediate years with , after the war I came back from the army to find we 'd been bombed out and were living in requisition accommodation , after a time , the , we were moved into a new flat over some shops .
5 When I came back from the bathroom , I looked at my watch .
6 Oh yes well I mean , I , I , I came back from the war
7 ‘ When I came back from the war , we still had rationing for a few years .
8 I felt further away from him than I had ever felt , even when I came back from the hospital .
9 I came back from the Oval to find that Buffy had blown his brains out because his father had refused to pay his gambling debts .
10 ‘ Could we meet downstairs later , after I come back from the course ? ’
11 I tell you what I 'll speak to you when I come back from the chippie yeah
12 ‘ It 's not very often that I come down from the pulpit but I feel this would be a genuinely worthwhile exercise , ’ he said .
13 Turbin lights and they were for use of coastal command of the RAF first searchlighting for submarines , looking for submarines , the er the Harvards were very much trained as some of them came in from the Navy they were used for training landing of pilots on aircraft carriers , and they had hooks underneath you know the er they were a very good trainer they were still used today , but when we used to go and see films at the pictures they used to use them a lot as Japanese aircraft because they looked alike , and they used to use them as zeros in the American films these Harvard trainers , er and but like as I said they had a experimental department at Helliwells and they used to try out various things to see if they could improve on the structure or the instrumentation things like that
14 A good many boys and girls had joined the crowd now and shouts of laughter broke out as a few of them came out from the gate in the kitchen-garden wall , their hands full of ripe peaches , their chins dripping with juice .
15 At Christmas they always played ‘ You came down from the stars ’ and at Easter they usually played a Pastorale , and what with the roar of the traffic and the crowds of chattering shoppers or tourists it was practically impossible to distinguish the tune except in short bursts .
16 Did erm did you notice any great differences when you came back from the war ?
17 What erm what kind of employment did you find when you came back from the war ?
18 Nurse Jones was a busy woman and he valued the minutes he had with her over a cup of tea when she came down from the bedroom .
19 In her plain blue suit she came down from the Clubhouse with two of the owners who seemed to want to be near the horses at ground level .
20 She came back from the telephone booth quickly , looking distracted .
21 ‘ When she came back from the doctor , she was crying in pain , ’ says Aszal Galiara .
22 I saw you coming back from the communion rails , with your eyes down and your hands folded , as if you were n't putrid inside , but I know .
23 ‘ Did you come back from the villa specially for me ? ’
24 Only now has she come in from the cold with her eleventh book being published by Collins ( at £10.95 ) .
25 you 're going where ? , you 're going back to the moon , oh have you co , have you come back from the moon now ?
26 Then , there 's never been a shortage of contributions for London 's musical guidebook ; have all helped to flesh out its pages , along with ‘ Kings Cross ’ , a song that the Pet Shop Boys wrote ( a ) ‘ Because it 's the London terminus you reach if you come down from the North-East ’ ; ( b ) Chris Lowe lived there ; and ( c ) ‘ It seemed like a good title about people waiting .
27 This is a peculiarly steep region , so much so in fact that the snow finds it more than usually difficult to stay where it has fallen ; there have been some sadly famous avalanches near Luz , the hamlets of Chéze and Saligos which you pass as you come in from the north both having been smothered and destroyed in their time .
28 So you come up behind it so that your body and the striker 's ball , that being your red ball and the other ball , the object ball are always the same straight line I mean it does n't matter whether you come in from the side you 're walking up to it in a straight line put your mallet down , swing it through .
29 She might phone about half past nine when she comes back from the hospital .
30 Find out what happened to her and why , according to the story , she comes back from the Underworld and brings spring to the earth .
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